While sorting through a box of old papers I came upon a familiar piece of scrap of paper that I had written well over a decade ago while on holiday with Mum in Tuscany. I had been living in England for years and had arranged to meet up with her there. We have always been…

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During my time working with Port Jackson Press Australia (PJPA) and meeting and chatting with many lovely print and art enthusiasts, I began to realise that many were keen on starting their own art collections but did not know where to begin. I offered to write an article for the PJPA gallery blog to assist…

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Morning Glory, Fat Boabs, WA, oil on board, 120 x 160cm Upcoming in May is an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Luke Sciberras, opening at Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne. After having the pleasure of designing the catalogue for this exhibition I have seen a preview of what is to be included and…

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Taking light as a primary focus, Light Conversation is an collaborative exhibition with Victoria Wareham and Fiona West. It aims to create narratives between the studio outputs of these two practitioners to investigate haptic relationships to light, space and the moving image. Consisting of large perforated static window vinyls, a series of intimate projections onto…

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If you love antiques, art and collectibles then come and check out the newly opened Capocchi Collingwood at 360-364 Smith Street. Owners Angela Capocchi and Steve McKinnon are a rock’n duo with an infectious passion for 19th and 20th century furniture, lighting and decorative arts. Angela and Steve are not newcomers to the industry though….

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By Jessica Velasquez On Tuesday night myself (CANVAS & CO) and Christina Lew (blogger, Miss Rosanna) were guest speakers on the topic of ‘Writing for Artists’ at Hatch Contemporary Art Space. Despite running overtime and covering several topics such as writing media releases, blogging, bio’s, CV’s and catalogue essays many of those who attended were keenly…

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Like many of us who wish for a cleaner future I have been inspired by the emerging stories of innovation and sustainability. Finding a solution to the ever increasing amount of plastic debris and changing public perception about the way in which use plastics seems a gigantic undertaking. The world is choking on plastic debris…

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SARAH KELK Sky Pink, acrylic on canvas, 76.2cm x 91.4cm // $2200 framed in Tasmanian oak // available from www.sarahkelk.com Sarah Kelk is the creator and designer of the online store and design brand Hello Polly. She is also an artist. Her expressive, colourful and abstract paintings are often the starting point for other design projects. Her approach is…

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This thursday night kicks off with the opening of Noah Taylor’s exhibition at the new impressive Lindberg Gallery in Collingwood. This will be Taylor’s first show in his hometown of Melbourne where he will be presenting a new suite of drawing, painting and sculpture. Taylor’s artistic career has spanned many genre’s including stage, screen and…

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Entries are now open for the Nillumbik Prize 2016 – a celebration of contemporary works of excellence by artists with a Nillumbik connection. Nillumbik Shire Council in association with Montsalvat presents the Nillumbik Prize; celebrating contemporary works of excellence by artists with a Nillumbik connection. Entrants must demonstrate a connection to the Shire of Nillumbik…

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The gift of a camera at age 15 was the beginning for Hellen van Meene. Born in the Netherlands in 1972 she began photographing girls her own age whom she knew. First exhibiting her work in 1996 she has continued to show internationally in America, UK, Europe, and Japan and is quoted as one of…

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CANVAS & CO. has been busy these last months working with 2 exciting Melbourne Street Artists: Kaff.eine at James Makin Gallery and KIRPY at Port Jackson Press Print Gallery. ‘Phoenix’ by Kaff.eine, in collaboration with artists Geloy Concepcion and Geric Cruz was an incredibly powerful and emotive exhibition, the result of their experience and involvement with the people of the impoverished slums of…

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Where: Gallery 9, Sydney www.gallery9.com.au When: 23 September – 17 October 2015 Viv Miller’s paintings and drawings are characterised by an idiosyncratic use of abstract and representational approaches. Her work draws influences from a range of Western and Asian art traditions, as well as imagery from the natural world, computer graphics and cel animation….

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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY : AUSTRALIA’S INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s international art fair, opens next week (Opening Night 10 September) with a diverse gathering of Australian and international galleries. It’s all taking place at Carriageworks in Sydney’s growing arts precinct, presenting over 90 galleries from 13 countries that will exhibit cutting-edge art and the next generation of emerging…

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CANVAS & CO was delighted to work with Godwin Bradbeer and James Makin Gallery on the installation of Bradbeer’s latest exhibition Delinquent Sublime – early and recent work. The exhibition is a revealing exploration into the artist’s lesser known photographic past, spliced with exquisite new drawings and digital prints. Senior artist Godwin Bradbeer gives an interesting insight into the development of The Lodger Revisited a key…

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Where: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane When: Saturday 22nd August, 10am-6pm http://www.think.edu.au/festival-of-change Get INSPIRED and come hang out with other career seekers and entrepreneurs. The Festival of Change is hosted by THINK EDUCATION and is designed for entrepreneurs, creatives and anyone who might need a little career direction. Get tips on how to get ahead or start your own business via a host of…

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One of the most beloved events on South Australia’s arts calendar, the SALA Festival is an innovative, open-access visual arts festival celebrating and promoting the diverse talents of South Australian Living Artists. Launched in 1998, the festival presents the works of thousands of established and emerging artists through unique collaborations and exhibitions in hundreds of…

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What is Art Money? Instant approval, take your art home and pay for it later. Art Money provides interest free loans to buy art at participating galleries. Loans are available for artworks priced from $750 to $20,000. Art Money makes owning art immediate and affordable. Payments are spread over 10 equal monthly payments. After paying a 10% deposit, you…

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El Museo del Barrio’s Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos is the first museum survey of the Nuyorican artist Rodríguez Calero and the second in a series of five women-artist retrospectives in El Museo’s current five-year plan. Guest-curated by Alejandro Anreus, the installation includes 29 large acrollage canvases, 19 smaller collages, 13 fotacrolés (altered photography) on…

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When: 4 – 22 August 2015 Where: Flinders Lane Gallery http://www.flg.com.au All memory is imagination. Memory is a portal through time and space. Memory is a fluid, sensuous time machine. We pull memories out of orbit, like asteroids or planets circling our every moment and return them refreshed, remembered and infused with re-imagining. Memory is…

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Where: Seventh Gallery, http://www.seventhgallery.org When: 22 July – 8 August 2015 Head case is an exhibition that has Morph (alter ego of artist Cathyann Coady) engrossed in a moment of self-contemplation in order to explore the nature and absurdity of the selfie phenomenon. Read More… ———————- To submit your exhibition to CANVAS & CO. email…

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Two unique projects presented by MONA and Kaldor Public Art Projects and curated by Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne. This exhibition explores how performance artist Abramović has refined her work over forty years, to focus on a central, unifying ideology: what she calls ‘the art of the immaterial’, involving the use of objects and rituals to achieve…

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“Art is a powerful visual language and creating art is a calming and therapeutic process. I would like to share with people my dreamscape, its beauty and its oddity. It might be an eerie creature, a whimsical scenery or a disturbed beauty who speaks words of wisdom – they are all embodiments of my subconscious mind. If…

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Bon Mott is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses design and performance with a major emphasis on spatial/sculptural practice. Currently her work explores the realm of performance art, embodying Bon Mott, the female ghost of AC/DC’s deceased frontman, Bon Scott. Mott’s practice encompasses a meditation on the female journey in Australia, both personal and collective,…

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In association with Head On Photo Festival, Stills Gallery presents one an exciting new contributor to Asian-Pacific video art, Thai-Australian Kawita Vatanajyankur, and her arresting new series Work (2015). read more

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I discovered this article written in 2012 by Eric Banks about Bogotá, Colombia where a small but dynamic art scene is turning the country’s capital into a requisite pit stop on the international art circuit. Very interesting! Click here to read more…

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CANVAS & CO specialises in graphic design, advertising, printed/digital catalogues and invitations for galleries and artists. We offer professional design with very competitive prices so let us quote your current design requirements to help bring down your exhibition expenses. For more info or a quote email: info@canvasandco.com.au

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Attention artists. Just bringing your attention to the Delacombe Wetlands Sculpture project. Ballarat City Council is currently calling for expressions of interest for this project. $75,000 Budget Deadline for expression of Interest 28th August 2013 12.00 noon Tenders may be lodged electronically at: www.tenderlink.com/ballarat/ For any further information you may contact: Julie Collins: Public Art Co-Ordinator juliecollins@ballarat.vic.gov.au…

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Never before seen in Australia, the Quarez collection is a culmination of our many years sourcing, accumulating, dealing with, and simply loving original vintage posters! Vivid and demanding attention, physical, urban. The posters of Michel Quarez are an uncompromising study in advertising, liberated from detail or the superfluous, dealing directly with the subject at hand….

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Kristin McIver’s current exhibition Status Quo at James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, explores the notion of identity as commodity. The exhibition continues McIver’s exploration of consumer identity in the era of hyper-capitalism. The work in the exhibition (predominantly in neon, steel and concrete), transposes digital subject matter. Her work Sitting Piece, 2012 has recently been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)…

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Vivir en la Tierra (Living on Land), by Andy Goldstein is a traveling exhibition of 65 large scale photographs that is touring several Latin American cities. The images were also published in a 2012 book titled Vivir en la Tierra by the Buenos Aires-based Edhasa publishing house. CANVAS discovered this exhibition while it was in Cartagena, Colombia and…

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In this major solo exhibition Pentimenti at James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, Godwin Bradbeer presents a series of new drawings, and sculptural and installation based work which continues his ongoing exploration into the metaphysical possibilities present within the human form. read more

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A sensational body of new works by Todd Hunter at Scott Livesey Gallery. A must see for lovers of paint, colour and The Beatles White Album. Crack open a beer, slap on the vinyl and drown yourself in the slash and drizzle of delectable oils on canvas. Masculine, sexy, and muscular. A rock’n exhibition. Where: Scott…

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For over 20 years Chilean-born artist Jorge Selarón has transformed the stairs of Lapa, Rio De Janeiro with a mosaic of thousands of coloured tiles and murals known as The Selarón Steps. Starting in 1990, his vision has breathed colour and life into what was once a very run down and depressed area. He continued his labor of…

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From the spiraling Fibonacci sequence patterning of Sunflower, 2011, that evidences the building blocks of the universe, through to the faltering anthropomorphic forms of Tulip, 2012, that chants ‘memento mori’ – we are reminded of our own mortality and the transient nature of human existence…..read more